The Charlotte Democrat., 1887-07-22
State News.


w Gov. Scales physician, learning
that the Governor intended taking trip
on the coast survey schooner Scoresby,
has advised against it, if the trip is to be
made in the Rivers. It may be that the
Governor will abandon the trip tor the
present, or else alter the route SO as to be
10 salt Greensboro Neses, July
| 18th.
We regret to hear that the health of the Gov
ernor is not very good. He has gone to Green's
boro to spend few days at his old home.]
az Gov. Scales has appointed the fol-
lowing Magistrates for Catawba county:
New ton township, w III Trott and III A
Forney; town of Newton, J n Brown;
town of Maiden, I r Self; Hickory, N NJ
Siegle, Abel Whitner; Cline's, Q M Smith,
+ K Little and G S Sigmsn; Catawba,
o F Abernathy, A G Braggs and G
Brown; town of Hickory, ] FL Burns;
town of Catawba, W H Adderholdt;
Mountain Greek, NJ M Gabriel; Caldwell's,
D Caldwell, 7 L Bandy and ] L Hunt;
Jacobs Fork, & M Yoder aud s t Will
fong; Bandy, John johnson, G P Clay
and VIM Wray.
ROUTE ABANDoNED.-We hear indi-
rectly that President Frank Coke says
that the G. @. & c. Go. have abandoned
the Marion route aud concluded to go by
Morganton; that he was partial to this
route, but the company determined to go
through Burke. From the same source
we learn that Mr. Joseph Bostic, chairman
of the county commissioners of Cleveland,
writes that the road will defect at Shell
by and go through Burke, aud that Cleve-
land will issue the O,0O0 OF bonds to the
road.-Marioaa Buole.
ORGANIZATION OF THE COLLECTORS
OFFIcE-Below o is the organization list of
the office of Collector Craige, of the new
uty Collector; NJ o Sheriff., Cashier; Gil
mer Brenizer, Bonded Account; Jerome
Dowd, in Stamp Room; G w Michal,
Brandy and Tobacco; ] q Upton, Brandy
and Tobacco; P Matheson, Clerk Bond
ed Account; nj P Anderson, Clerk Bonded
Account; J H McRee, Assessment List;
Thos Earnhardt. Messenger.
Collector Craig has appointed MIR A NJ
) Vannoy of this place, special deputy in
the Internal Revenue Service. As was
| stated last week, there are to be but Two
special deputi, in the new filth district,
|
Mr. Craige had already appointed Col. A.
FL. Baird OF Ashevile, one of these, and
last Friday he sent MIR Vannoy his com
mission as the other one.-StatescaUe
: Landmark.
W The Morganton Star says: "dr
l.. A. Crawley, tenant on the Mcdowell
farm. in this county, raised, this year
595 bushels Of wheat on reuted land aud
27 ON hisowh land And yet some people
argue that farming don't pay in this coun
try"
, a. Adjutant General J tombstone ones
last week made application for and re
ceived the annual appropriation OF $500
! for each OF the following companies
Goldsboro Rifles, Maxton Guards, Fay
etteville Independent Light Infantry, and
Asheville Light Infantry. These compa
nies have passed their annual inspection.
> and have been favorably reported by the
Inspector General as showing compliance
with the law governing the disbursement,
, of the fund.-RGleigh Observer.
s~ In our sister town of Kinston they
, have now, and have for some time, a sum
mer complaint approaching in it's maligui
> ty the Asiatic cholera. 1t is our sor
8 rowful duty this morning to chronicle the
death of Mrs Emily M. Clingman, wife o
DR.. Henry P. Clingman and mother o
Mrs L. w. Humphrey of this city, aud o
our late lamented townsman, the gifteC
Nixon P. Clingman. Her death occurred
!, at the home of her son-in-law, Col. L. W
. Humphrey, on Thursday night, in th,
!, 18th year of her age, after lingering i'll
, ness of several weeks G0lds6oro Argus
H Among several things lying OF
i the clerks table in the Office of the Su
D preme Court was noticed the dimension
of the State House which had just beer
taken. They were as follows: Length
q 100 feet; breadth, 14O feet; height to tol
of dome, 949 feet; to top of pediment, 81
) feet The columns of the east and ives
porticos are five feet p inches 10 diane
ter and 80 feet high.-Raleigh Observer
q H Three colored men arrested 70
f larceny made their escape from Shelb,
!. Jail on last Friday night by filing severa
o iron bars of the iron cage so as to make al
aperture foot square for their exit. B,
tearing their blankets into pieces 40 a
+ to make ropes, they escaped from the win
dow to the ground in front of the Jail
4 They have not been recsptured.-SheI6!
aurora.
D az Friday evening of last week light
# ming struck the barn of Mr. Philli
4 Coins, in the northwestern part of How
e ards Greek township. The electricit
produced combustion and the barn wa
Q consumed, and one OF Mr. Coins mule
n was burned up. The threshers had lef
l. the barn just few minutes before th
ire occurred.-LincoI,e Courier.
a. Ats depth OF 100 feet under ground
= they have at the Steele gold mine coll
u stream of water jetting out from the roc
J wall, into which they have inserted tube
= and this, friend informs us, is occasion
ally converted by the clever officials int
an "ice-cold lemonade" fountain.-9s 9so
Vidette
b az The new pistol law in Texas
l. which went into effect on July 4, punishe
;. by fine and imprisonment all person
| Uh oarru On 0r houf fhair poroOos